What's the best Shakespeare adaptation?

why is Fascist Shakespeare such a kino trope?

Anyone got any verdict on Coriolanus with Ralph Fiennes? Is it worth a watch?

Including a few very loose adaptations.
Macbeth (1948)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Othello (1952)
Richard III (1955)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
West Side Story (1961)
All Night Long (1962)
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Macbeth (1971)
Ran (1985)
China Girl (1987)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Prospero’s Books (1991)

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Was it okay?

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That fucking speech, man. Incredible.

>Joss Whedon
cuck

Romeo and Juliet with Leonard Whiting and the big breasted Olivia Hussey.

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>stop dressing like a slut or my men will rape you

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I loved the Hollow Crown stuff from BBC
minus the part where they got a PoC to portray a historically white queen

It's preddy gud. Pros: Brian Cox is in it and he does a great job. It's kind of dull when Ralph Fiennes isn't killing Volscene fucking Shits or chewing the scenery with his best disdain for plebs intimation. Cons: Gerald Butler is impossible to understand and the ending's pretty trash (all of Shakespeare's plays have that problem imo) but otherwise it's a solid kino. If you like "modernized" interpretations of Shakespeare like the Richard III movie where Richard is larping as Mosley and the Hamlet with Ethan Hawke as every cheap, late-90s suspense thriller combined then you'll like this one too. If you think that kind of window dressing is cheesy and overdone you're better off just watching the good parts on Youtube or something. Oh, and yes, trigger warnings: there is a black guy in it and he's playing a high ranking Roman general, and the credits has a Chinese actor in a bit part (Zu Yu Hua as "citizen"). If that deters you, welp.

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I know this is bait but fuck the Caliphate of Britbongistan. Seriously.

Britfasc is pretty kino all-around.

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Is that a black woman or a black man
I can't even tell
Richard II was a dude right?
Or are they retconning his gender along with his race?
What a shitshow.

>I saw a theatre production of Othello in the 90s where all the actors were black but the title role was played by patrick Stewart.
mustve been set in modern day USA

Oh look OP isn't happy with the replies he's been getting. Bless him.

I really liked it.
Some of the dialogue was hit-or-miss but it's always been hard translating shakesperian dialogue into film, especially in the cases where it's verbatim.
The acting was good and the cinematography was superb though.

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god damn it I miss him so much

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Imagine a world without Ken Bran. We're so lucky to have him.

Did you seriously mistake Ian McKellen for John Hurt?

i hate changing the race of characters in film as much as the next guy but it doesn't matter at all in theatre, its all about the acting rather than the look of the character

Why are British playwrights so unimaginative they keep on producing countless sequels? Richard II, Henry V etc.

Body Heat was a fun movie.

Baz luhrman's romeo and juliet

a cute
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it seems I did, but come on they look really similar

You jest but when they released The Madness of George III in the US they changed the title to The Madness of King George, so Americans didn't think it was part of a trilogy.

Lion King

I like Chimes at Midnight. Its an Orson Welles adaption of Henry IV and V, but focused around Falstaff. Every time I watch it it makes me so thankful that it actually exists. It would have been a tragedy if we never got to see Orson Welles play Falstaff.

This, it's not the same. I don't care when black people play "white" characters in Shakespearean adaptations, because it's not supposed to be an accurate picture of the time period, and it's not claiming to be. It's something totally different.

Not bluepilled at all but who gives a fuck about black people in theatre? The whole point is that you can produce a play in 1000 different ways from the same text, it’s very difficult to make something so old “authentic”

>"white" characters
Fictional Shakespeare characters are one thing, but when it's a historical person that was white then that person was white not "white". Take the nigger dick out of your mouth

but it's all about the acting rather than the look of the character, I completely agree with you when it comes to cinema and tv but in theatre it doesnt matter at all

I'm not sure if I could call it the 'best', but Ran was a wonderful adaptation and a personal favourite of mine

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Take the dick out of your mouth you little piece of shit. I see you have never been to a theater. Is normal in theatre to play any character with any actor, no matter gender or race. And that is not a modern thing, since Roman times it has been the case for cryin out loud. Fucking under age polfag, in the end you are the same shit you claim sjw to be

Roman Polanskis Macbeth, but any that doesn’t pretend Europeans were sub Saharan black people is worth a watch.

Find Tom Hiddleston’s version for the best Coriolanus

Characters like King Richard and King Lear are just characters. They are not really the real historical figures, they are creations of Shakespeare using familiar historical presets.
Staging an adaptation of a Shakespearean work has everything to do with the play itself and nothing to do with who King Lear/Leir really is. They're not the same thing at all, and nobody thinks they are. The whole point is that you are not striving for "realism" to the 14th century

10/10

I couldn’t watch it for that, her smug ugly racist face ruined it

This is a thread about movie adaptations

>Richard II
>A 'Shakespeare character'
Yeah I loved those random fellas Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony that Shakespeare invented too, they seemed so realistic. Not sure how he did it.

No you don’t hate race erasure, you love it. And your excuse about theatre is absolute bollocks - we’re under immense pressure to cast for “diversity” over talent, whether it’s the RSC or the English National Ballet. Literally nobody working in the industry thinks black people are cast as white queens and lead dancers for their talents.

>since Roman times it has been the case for cryin out loud.
it's 2019, we can do better

>lets modernize the hell out of the story and make it about gangster families
>but keep all the old timey Shakespearean dialogue
absolute kino.

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except for the changed ending, that was weak

Shakespeare lived in an England when nobody would see a black person their entire lives. Those characters are all white, even Othello is not meant to be the Nigerian looking guy they always cast. You think you’re so clever putting your own libtard spin on his plays, but you’re so transparent.

>No you don’t hate race erasure, you love it.
calm down you fucking autist you don't have a clue what I think so pipe down, if this was a film then id be as mad as you are but theatre is a completely different thing anyone can play anyone as long as they are good enough

you do know the women were played by men in Shakespeare's time? Doesn't mean all women were trannies back then.

that's because actresses weren't much of a thing back then

The pic in OP is from a theatre production. Backpedal harder faggot.

>it's the current year!
Fuck off SJW

This movie had Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, and JGL.

Shakespeare stories are adapted for alternate history shit all the time while keeping the same plot, including stories originally based on historical events. You're grasping at straws here just because you enjoy being outraged.

>JGL
What the fuck happened to that guy? He dropped off the map quick.